ABUSE

Jewish camp leader
sentenced for abuse (The West
Australian) June 10 - More than 20 years after a Jewish camp leader indecently assaulted a
14-year-old boy, a victim support group has welcomed his sentence as a milestone
in the community's fight against child abuse.

Also:
Child sex abuser who
preyed on boy at Jewish camp avoids jail (The Age, Melbourne) June 11 - A Jewish volunteer who indecently assaulted a teenage boy at a
Yeshiva camp in the 1980s has escaped jail, a magistrate saying he would have
sent him to prison if the crimes had been committed more recently.

Marist Brother
apologises to abuse victims (The
West Australian) June 10 - Stories of ruined lives, death threats, lost police statements and a
three-decade-old apology have featured in the opening session of child sexual
assault hearings in Canberra.

Marists had 'disregard'
for abuse victims (Brisbane Times)
June 11 - The Marist Brothers have a "sociopathic disregard" for the
welfare of child sex abuse victims and are more concerned about their
reputation and limiting compensation payouts, a royal commission has been told.

Abuse royal commission
probes the Vatican (Brisbane
Times) June 12 - The royal commission into child sex abuse is investigating how the
Vatican dealt with allegations of abuse against its priests in Australia.

ARTS
& ENTERTAINMENT

The Shiva scandal has
led to calls for museum audits(Sydney Morning Herald) June 14 - The National Gallery of Australia's controversial dancing Shiva
statue is now in the possession of the federal government and several suspect
Indian statues have been removed from the floor of the Art Gallery of the NSW.

EDUCATION

Public school exodus
starts as early as year 2(Sydney Morning Herald) June 14 - The stampede from public primary schools to private high schools when
a child finishes year 6 is a tradition in parts of Sydney, but principals say
the exodus now starts as early as year 2 as parents panic they will miss out on
their school of choice.

Also:
Dublin announces full
probe into Catholic baby homes (The
West Australian) June 11 - Dublin (AFP) - The Irish government said on Tuesday it would launch a
full-scale investigation into controversial Catholic homes for unmarried
mothers, following revelations that up to 800 infants died in one such
institution over a 35-year period.

Islam

UK schools report finds
‘campaign’ linked to Muslim extremism (The West Australian) June 9 - LONDON (Reuters) - A culture of "fear and intimidation"
exists in some British schools due to an alleged Muslim extremist plot, the top
school inspector said on Monday, citing faith and gender segregation and
funding misuse.

Islamic schools push
sparks lessons in UK values (The
Australian) June 11 - ALL children will be taught British values of liberty and tolerance
from September after a series of reports revealed yesterday how strict Islamic
ideology had been imposed on schools.

Turkish imam given go
ahead to make rock 'n' roll (The
West Australian) June 11 - Istanbul (AFP) - A Turkish imam has been allowed to rock on after the
country's powerful religious authorities gave him the green light to continue
playing in his band after a nine-month

Jihadists take Tikrit,
next stop Baghdad (The Australian)
June 12 - MILITANTS have seized the Iraqi city of Tikrit but security forces
thwarted an assault on Samarra as a lightning jihadist offensive launched in
the city of Mosul swept closer to Baghdad.

Baghdad braces for
jihadi onslaught (The Australian)
June 13 - ISLAMIC jihadists were 90km from Baghdad last night after vowing to
march into the Iraq capital with “a score to settle”.

What is going on in Iraq
and why?(Sydney Morning
Herald) June 13 - An al-Qaeda breakaway group, apparently backed by other Sunni groups
and fighters, has seized a large section of northern Iraq after previously
taking much of northeastern Syria with an eye toward establishing an Islamic
state straddling the two countries.

Call to arms as Iraq
sinks into sectarian violence (The
Age, Melbourne) June 14 - Iraq sank deeper into all-out
sectarian conflict overnight with the country’s most senior Shiite cleric
calling for volunteers to take up arms against Sunni militants who are
threatening to stage an attack on the capital Baghdad after securing key towns
in the north.

Young Iraqis volunteer
to fight surging militants (The
Courier-Mail, Brisbane) June 14 - HUNDREDS of young Iraqi men gripped by religious and nationalistic
fervour streamed into volunteer centres on Saturday across Baghdad, answering a
call by the country’s top Shiite cleric to join the fight against Sunni
militants advancing in the north.

Advance of ISIS
insurgents slows as US orders carrier to Gulf(ABC
News) June 15 - An offensive by insurgents that threatens to split Iraq seemed to
slow on Saturday after days of lightning advances as government forces regained
some territory in counter-attacks, easing pressure on the Shiite-led government
in Baghdad.

Other

India's holy men to
advise on Modi's Ganges river clean up(ABC
News) June 13 - India's new government will seek the advice of holy men on how best
to carry out an ambitious plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clean up the
Ganges, a river that is sacred to the majority Hindu population.

ISLAM

Imams rap police over
Syrian war allegations(Sydney Morning Herald) June 10 - Muslim leaders have taken a swipe against police in a run-in that has
exposed failures in the effort to stop Australians joining the Syrian jihad.

AFP after ISIS-supporting
sheik Musa Cerantonio (The
Australian) June 14 - THE Australian Federal Police is preparing to move against one of the
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s most influential supporters, radical
Australian sheik Musa Cerantonio.

‘It is the young flesh
they want’ (The Australian) June 14 - ON a hot summer’s day earlier this year, a beautiful young Pakistani
girl named Amina stood in the living room of her western Sydney home, listening
in horror as her father explained how he planned to ­murder her.

Also:
Salvos attack Canberra
over Manus Island report(Sydney Morning Herald) June 12 - The Salvation Army has attacked the Abbott government and its
independent report on the Manus Island violence, maintaining the innocence of a
worker accused of delivering the final blow to Reza Barati's skull.

Also:
No preparation for
reality of Manus Island (The
Australian) June 13 - WITHIN days of spotting a Facebook advertisement for a tropical
working “holiday” in September 2012, Nicole Judge was counselling suicidal
detainees at the heart of Australia’s immigration detention network.

Bishop condemns Iraq
terrorist group (Brisbane Times)
June 12 - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has condemned military attacks launched
by an Islamist terrorist group in Iraq, which has stunned authorities by
capturing two major cities in just days.

RELIGION
& SOCIETY

William Hopoate on cusp
of startling comeback (The Age,
Melbourne) June 10 - William Hopoate, a Mormon missionary up until a few months ago, is
expected to prove the Lord helps those who help themselves when the NSW State
of Origin team is named on Tuesday.

Hospital built on
religious divide (The West
Australian) June 11 - The Catholic health provider contracted to run Midland Health Campus
is insisting a separate building be constructed to provide abortions,
sterilisations and contraception, which cannot share any infrastructure with
the public hospital.

Also:
Heat over WA stand-alone
abortion clinic (The West
Australian) June 12 - A Catholic health provider that will run a new hospital in Perth says
the move to have "restricted procedures" such as abortions done at a
separate facility was the government's decision.